Re:Bitwarden: Generate a Username
by logifail on Thursday May 05, 2022 @09:37AM
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Let's say your domain name is example.com
> Distinct emails is just defense in-depth.
> (it also helps a lot with tracing who's sold your data to a spammer)
Not only that, if when you first sign up with BigCo you give them your email address as [email protected] then when one eventually stops dealing with BigCo one be certain that all email addressed to [email protected] can be rejected at your email server without a second thought, no need to scan for spam, just reject everything addressed to that alias.
A good friend of mine takes this a step further and does it through DNS (which of course he self-hosts as well as his mail server). He would give his email to BigCo as [email protected]. Once he's done with BigCo then he removes the records for bigco.example.com and there's no way to even look up a relevant mailserver to send email to [email protected]!
> Distinct emails is just defense in-depth. > (it also helps a lot with tracing who's sold your data to a spammer)
Not only that, if when you first sign up with BigCo you give them your email address as [email protected] then when one eventually stops dealing with BigCo one be certain that all email addressed to [email protected] can be rejected at your email server without a second thought, no need to scan for spam, just reject everything addressed to that alias.
A good friend of mine takes this a step further and does it through DNS (which of course he self-hosts as well as his mail server). He would give his email to BigCo as [email protected]. Once he's done with BigCo then he removes the records for bigco.example.com and there's no way to even look up a relevant mailserver to send email to [email protected]!